Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 14, 2025

Like renewable energy IB , different banks classify their groups differently, so you could find yourself working on everything from a data center REIT M&A deal to an airport financing to an IPO for a solar developer. It even includes elements of healthcare , industrials , and oil & gas investment banking.

Investment Banking

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

JULY 31, 2025

Cross-border biopharma venture targets $300M IPO valuation and UAE facility launch by Q3 2025.

IPO

JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Cautious deployment of M&A war chests while concerns relating to IPO and equity market trading buoyancy continue. Current market: Fewer M&A deals as Europe's FMI tectonic plates digest acquisitions of yesteryear. By: White & Case LLP

Trading

JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 16, 2024

There have been 44 initial public offerings (IPOs) listed on the US stock markets in 2024 thus far, many of which continue to trade at a premium to their initial offering price, demonstrating the strength and buoyancy of current public markets.

Initial Public Offering

Successful Acquisitions

JUNE 27, 2023

Will Cava Going Public Set the Table for Other IPOs? By David Braun, Founder and CEO, Capstone Strategic When Washington DC based restaurant chain Cava became a publicly traded company recently, it bucked a trend that has lasted nearly two years, a notable absence of American IPOs.

IPO

The TRADE

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) saw overall growth across its key businesses in 2023, with considerable improvement across data and analytics, capital markets, and in particular, post-trade. We are also seeing an encouraging IPO pipeline for the London Stock Exchange. David Schwimmer The data and analytics offering saw a 7.3%

Trading

How2Exit

APRIL 8, 2024

b' E202: M&A for Entrepreneurs: Leverage Acquisitions to Scale Your Business Faster with Dominic Wells - Watch Here rn rn About the Guest(s): rn Dominic Wells is an accomplished entrepreneur and the CEO of Onfolio, a publicly traded company specializing in the acquisition of online businesses.

M&A

Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. In that environment, very few firms sought IPOs, and there was a major slowdown in overall exits, whether private or public. There are only a few publicly traded companies in specialty consulting. As 2024 starts, the U.S.

IPO

TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 27, 2023

Meanwhile, publicly traded BNPL companies like Affirm and Australia’s Zip have seen their share prices plummet; Affirm was recently forced to shut down its crypto unit and lay off 19% of its staff. million users to the platform, and comes as Upgrade weighs an IPO. billion to just $6.7

Finance

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

JANUARY 15, 2025

15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BurTech Acquisition Corp. BurTech) (NASDAQ: BRKH), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, and Blaize, Inc. and began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbols BZAI and BZAIW on January 14, 2025. WASHINGTON and EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.,

Underwriting

The TRADE

JANUARY 16, 2024

Once approved, the expanded trading platform of Panmure Liberum will also boast trading relationships with more than 900 counterparties across the UK, US, Europe and Asia. The deal comes just three months after Deutsche Bank completed the acquisition of institutional broker Numis for £410 million.

Investment Banking

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 16, 2025

The stock was last up more than 3% in extended trading. " "We believe the stock will continue to trade higher this year as the Celsius brand returns to growth, the Alani Nu integration progresses smoothly, and investors look ahead to distribution expansion in 2026 and beyond. 3 brand in the U.S.

Shares

Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 3, 2024

billion (though the deal is under scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission for the creation of a sandwich monopoly). Cava opened the IPO window and showed that a good company can go public in any market. a share, below its 52-week high and at only a slight premium on its trading price. Subway sold to Roark Capital for $9.6

Acquisitions

Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Investment banking is a branch of banking that organizes and enables large, complex financial transactions for businesses, like mergers, IPOs or underwriting. Investment Banking Services Initial Public Offering (IPO) When a privately-owned business wants to become a publicly traded company, it goes through an IPO , or Initial Public Offering.

Investment Banking

Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

These include prevailing market sentiment, current appetite for acquisitions in a particular sector and the political and economic environment, all of which can change well within a given transaction timetable. Is the IPO track suitable for (and available to) the business?

IPO

MergersCorp M&A International

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a significant move to capitalize on the burgeoning Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) market, MergersCorp has announced the launch of specialized services tailored specifically for SPACs. The decision to roll out these dedicated services comes as the SPAC market has shown resilience and adaptability amid varying market conditions.

Mergers and Acquisitions

OfficeHours

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The shares of the company are bought out and delisted from the public stock exchange that the company trades on. First, private equity identifies the publicly traded company they believe is undervalued or could perform better as a private entity without the pressures of being a public entity (e.g. What does a take-private entail?

Investors

OfficeHours

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The shares of the company are bought out and delisted from the public stock exchange that the company trades on. First, private equity identifies the publicly traded company they believe is undervalued or could perform better as a private entity without the pressures of being a public entity (e.g.

Investors

OfficeHours

AUGUST 9, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). Once improved, the exit can then take place, usually in the form of another sale or an Initial Public Offering (IPO), both of which are usually under the advice of an investment bank.

Private Equity

Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

is the increased frequency at which SPAC IPOs are occurring. As reflected in Chart 1 , 102 SPAC IPOs have been announced this year as of September 18, 2020—almost double the number of SPAC IPOs in all of last year (and more than double the number of SPAC IPOs in 2018). SPAC vs. IPO. A distinct feature of SPAC 3.0

M&A

Sun Acquisitions

AUGUST 5, 2024

In the dynamic world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), staying ahead of the curve is crucial for success. Additionally, geopolitical factors, such as trade agreements and regulatory changes, are driving cross-border deal activity as companies seek to navigate market uncertainties and diversify their risk exposure.

M&A

Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

First, there’s the ability to raise substantial capital by issuing shares to the public in an initial public offering (IPO), as well as secondary offerings. Second, publicly traded companies gain increased visibility, which can enhance their brand image and attract even more customers. The benefits of going public are significant.

Private Equity

OfficeHours

AUGUST 20, 2023

Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). Once improved, the exit can then take place, usually in the form of another sale or an Initial Public Offering (IPO), both of which are usually under the advice of an investment bank.

Private Equity

Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

There are compelling rationales for adopting a dual-class structure, but even proponents of the structure generally acknowledge that these benefits are significantly mitigated once the dual-class shares are out of the hands of the founders and/or pre-IPO stockholders. Voting agreements in public M&A transactions.

M&A

Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Investment Banking: Deals The basic difference is that in “investment banking” groups, such as technology , TMT , healthcare , or consumer retail , you work on various deal types: sell-side and buy-side M&A, leveraged buyouts, IPOs, follow-on offerings, and bond issuances. or debt offerings (investment-grade or high-yield bonds).

Capital Market

Peak Frameworks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Trading and Proprietary Trading Many large banks are involved in trading activities. This can be trading on behalf of their clients (like when you buy a stock through a bank's brokerage service) or proprietary trading where banks invest their own money.

Banking

Cooley M&A

MARCH 2, 2021

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are on the rise. A SPAC is a publicly traded shell company with no underlying operating business that seeks to merge with a target operating company. According to Nasdaq , in 2015, SPACs made up approximately 12% of the IPO market, but by 2020, that number had risen to approximately 53%.

Securities

Cooley M&A

MARCH 22, 2023

With the US initial public offering markets continuing to remain largely closed, and special purpose acquisition company combinations being costly and complex, there’s a new kid in town for foreign companies looking to go public in the US: reverse mergers. You should also assess potential difficulties in obtaining the U.S. While the U.S.

Mergers

Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

I’ll do a deep dive into the entire space in this article, including the top funds, example trades, recruiting, exit opportunities, and more. Event-driven hedge funds differ from other funds because they rely on specific “hard catalysts,” such as acquisitions and divestitures. revenue and 11.5x EBITDA multiple , matching its own.

Funds

Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Renewable Energy Investment Banking Definition: In renewable energy investment banking, bankers advise companies in the solar, wind, biofuel, storage, battery, smart grid, electric vehicle, hydrogen, hydroelectric, and carbon capture verticals on equity and debt issuances, asset deals, and mergers and acquisitions.

Investment Banking

Mergers and Inquisitions

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

But the events of 2023, including the UBS acquisition of Credit Suisse and the rise of firms like Wells Fargo, Jefferies, and RBC, have shaken up the traditional list. The name “bulge bracket” (BB) comes from the prospectus for an IPO or debt issuance, which lists all the banks underwriting the deal.

Bulge Bracket

Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Underwriting Services Merchant banks also provide underwriting services for initial public offerings (IPOs), private placements, follow-on public offerings (FPOs) and rights issues. They also provide specialized services such as capital raising, merger and acquisition advice, foreign exchange transactions, and project finance.

Banking

The Deal

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our acquisition strategy is aligned with acquiring companies with a traditional product portfolio, who have success and marquee customer relationships that we can transform with our AI platform,” SymphonyAI CEO Sanjay Dhawan told The Deal. Following acquisitions, the company develops AI applications for the target’s clients.

M&A

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, in the biopharma space, AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, and Roche each announced multiple big-ticket acquisitions in the fourth quarter – including Abbvie’s acquisition of ImmunoGen for $10.1 billion; Bristol Myer Squibb’s acquisition of RayzeBio for $4.1 billion and Cerevel Therapeutics for $8.7

M&A

Cooley M&A

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In spite of a general environment of political and economic uncertainty and a daily sprinkling of stock market volatility, trade wars, sanctions, the U.S. government shutdown disrupting the market for IPOs, Brexit uncertainty, natural disasters and various other crises, cross-border M&A activity momentum continues. The current U.S./China

M&A

Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For public companies with well-performing stocks (or at least for those doing better than their peers) looking for strategic acquisitions, using stock as acquisition consideration will present a viable alternative to cash. the SEC does not shut the door on the use of projections in deSPACs).

M&A

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

But it wasn’t all carve outs and concerned investors – even with the headwinds in the industry and beyond, there were still several traditional public M&A deals involving biotechnology or medical device companies, as large pharmaceutical companies continued to have cash to deploy for acquisitions.

M&A